Apparently that doesn’t sit well with everyone. Sporting News columnist David Whitley is one of those people. We know that because he published a column that ripped into Kaep for his inky ways.

The column — which you can read HERE — sparked a bit of a controversy. Frankly, it read a little racist, a little ageist and a little out-of-touch-ist. At one point, the author complains that quarterbacks are supposed to be like CEOs.Yikes.

The magazine took so much heat that the publication’s editor, Garry D. Howard, published his own reaction, which you can read HERE.

In that piece, Ostler revealed that most of Colin’s tattoos consist of religious scripture. Ostler wrote: “Kaepernick has several tattoos. They’re all Scripture-based, mostly Book of Psalms. But don’t pin down Colin. Says his dad, Rick: “He was baptized Methodist, confirmed Lutheran and went to a Baptist church in Reno.”

Ostler’s column went on to paint a picture of a kid that seems to have never done any wrong.

But he sure seems to have a knack for getting into the middle of controversies, huh?

A commemorative football sits in a glass case at Ruben's Barber Shop in downtown Turlock, Ca. on Wednesday May 4, 2011. Pitman high school quarterback, Colin Kaepernick, the San Francisco 49ers second round draft pick, played in that game and beat Turlock high school that year. Photo: Michael Macor, The Chronicle